MINSK (Reuters) – Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists have agreed to extend a pull-back of weapons in east Ukraine to include tanks and smaller weapons systems, the OSCE’s representative at peace talks, Martin Sajdik, said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...

Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists have agreed to extend a pull-back of weapons in east Ukraine to include tanks and smaller weapons systems, the OSCE’s representative at peace talks, Martin Sajdik, said on Tuesday. …read more Source: Channel...

LVIV (AFP) – A day ahead of hosting Paris Saint Germain in the Champions League Shakhtar Donetsk coach Mircea Lucescu said the Qatar-backed outfit were even stronger than Real Madrid right now.We have every chance because were playing at our place but Paris are just incredible. They are rolling in cash and have the best players and talent...

KICK-OFF: 12:15 am IST Jose Mourinho will be up against his former team Porto, the team with whom Mourinho won his first Champions League title in 2004. Mourinho, who managed FC Porto from 2002 to 2004, made the Portuguese club one of the best club in Europe at that time. Under Mourinho, Porto won the Portuguese League twice, the UEFA cup in 2003...

OTTAWA : Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper in an election debate Monday defended Canadian air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, while his political rivals called for a pullback, BSS/AFP reported. The New Democrats, if elected, would end the military mission, while the Liberals said they would withdraw Canadian...

UNITED NATIONS : Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had his first face-to-face meeting in nearly a year on Monday with Russian President Vladmir Putin, reports Japan Today. At their last meeting on the sidelines of an Asian summit in China last November, they agreed the Russian leader would come to Japan during 2015. But ties have been strained...

United States President Barack Obama (right) and Russia’s President President Vladimir Putin pose for members of the media before a bilateral meeting Monday at United Nations headquarters. (AP/Andrew Harnik)US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first formal meeting in more than two years started with an...

China’s President Xi Jinping speaks at a leaders’ summit on peacekeeping at United Nations headquarters Monday. (AP/Kevin Hagen)Call it checkbook diplomacy, Chinese style.On visits to Washington and the United Nations, President Xi Jinping has pledged billions of dollars for peacekeeping, economic development and climate change,...

LONDON – The Alexandr Tkachenko, an ageing ferry with a canary-yellow hull, usually carries people across the Kerch Strait, a bustling sea route and the only connection between Russia and Crimea, the peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year. But the… …read more Source:...